RxDoctor Payments Data

Stacy Moulder

Internal Medicine · Houston, TXNPI 1184725111

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $337 of the $445 with a category attached, or 75.6%. Pfizer accounts for 80.7% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $424 and has fallen 97.2% since, to $12 in 2021.

$445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $29.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$359
  • Exelixis Inc.$74
  • Gilead$12
$1,209,876in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $10,253 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novartis$896K
  • Pfizer$294K
  • Seagen Inc.$17K
  • Merck$3K

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$33776%
  • Education$10924%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Pfizer13$359
Exelixis Inc.1$74
Gilead1$12

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 7,675 internal medicine providers in Texas.

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